Epoxy Flooring in Sterling, ND

Epoxy flooring in Sterling is a defense against the highway. Sterling sits at the junction of Interstate 94 and US 83 in Burleigh County, inside the Bismarck-Mandan metro. Almost every trip out of town starts on a treated road. In winter that means your vehicle brings home a coat of slush loaded with salt, brine and sand, and it all melts onto the garage floor overnight.

How road salt works, and why it matters to your slab

The North Dakota DOT plow safety brochure, distributed by Burleigh County, explains that rock salt has to dissolve into a solution before it can melt ice. That is why crews pre-wet salt and sand with liquid brine and spray brine ahead of storms. It also gives melting figures: one pound of salt melts about 46.3 pounds of ice at 30°F, but only 8.6 pounds at 20°F and 3.7 pounds at zero. On a cold North Dakota highway, crews need a lot of material to keep lanes open.

All of that salt water ends up somewhere, and some of it ends up in your garage. Bare concrete absorbs it. As the slab freezes and thaws, the salt crystals and ice inside the surface break off small flakes of concrete. That is the pitting and scaling you see in front of the tires on older floors.

Keeping brine on top

A coating works because it stops the brine from soaking in. On a Sterling garage floor we:

• Grind away any scaled or salt-weakened surface until we reach sound concrete
• Patch pits and spalls flush with the surrounding slab
• Lay down an epoxy base and a full flake broadcast
• Finish with a polyaspartic topcoat that resists salt and road chemicals

Then meltwater sits on the surface, and you push it out the door with a squeegee. In spring, a rinse with mild soap takes off the white film.

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A small place with a long history

Sterling's population was 198 in 1900 and has slowly declined since. It was 35 in 2010 and an estimated 32 in 2017. Most homes around it sit on rural parcels across about 36 square miles. Many have a shop alongside the garage. For those buildings we recommend our Shop & Pole Barn Floor Epoxy, which is built thicker for trucks, trailers and equipment that come in off the same salted roads.

Getting started

Send us photos of the floor if you can, with close-ups of any pitting near where you park. We will set a time to measure and test the slab, then give you a written quote that lists the prep and each coat.

Shops off the same roads

Pickups, trailers and equipment coming into a Sterling shop carry the same salt and sand as the family car, just more of it. Salt water drips off frames and fenders for days after a storm. On a shop floor we:

• Build the base coat thicker so it holds up under heavy tires and jack stands
• Use a coarser flake or aggregate for grip in wet bays
• Coat a short way up the walls where slush and salt spray land

If your shop has a floor drain, we coat right to it so meltwater runs off instead of sitting in low spots.